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he deserves, success." Subsequently these tales passed through four 

 editions. 



Mr. Knight many years afterwards published a dramatic poem 

 entitled " Hannibal in Bithynia," conceived, he tells us, many years 

 before at Brusa. Fortunately, hovi^ever, its author soon discovered 

 that towards History and Architectural Archaeology was his true vo- 

 cation. In 1831, he landed at Dieppe, and then began his tour in 

 Normandy, having engaged as his companion Mr. Richard Hussey, 

 an architeat by profession, that he might, to use his own words, 

 " have the assistance of a practised eye to examine the construction 

 of the buildings and a practised hand to delineate their outline." 

 The result vi'as a small octavo volume with plates, called " An Ar- 

 chitectural Tour in Normandy," a work of considerable research and 

 great nicety of observation, and so highly approved in France as to 

 be translated into the French language. His next publication was 

 " The Normans in Sicily," a kind of historical sequel to his Archi- 

 tectural Tour, and, like it, accomplished with an architect by his side, 

 and distinguished by diligent endeavours to arrive at truth. " Ec- 

 clesiastical Architecture of Italy, from the time of'Constantine to 

 the fifteenth century," followed ; a splendid work in two vols, royal 

 folio, containing eighty-one litho-chromatic plates by Mr. Owen 

 Jones, and prefaced by a clever introduction from Mr. Knight's pen, 

 and probably the work on which his fame will rest. He lived to 

 publish no other, but the love of his favourite study remained with 

 him to the last ; for at the time of his decease he was busy with a 

 new work on architecture. Mr. Knight was elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society in 184-1 ; he was one of the Commissioners on the Fine 

 Arts ; and represented North Nottinghamshire in Parliament since 

 1834. He expired on the 9th of February, aged fifty-nine, at his 

 residence in Lower Grosvenor Street. 



In the death of Honor atus Leigh Thomas, Esq., the Royal 

 Society, as well as the Royal College of Surgeons, have to deplore 

 the loss of one of their oldest members. 



Mr. Thomas was one of the few remaining pupils of the celebrated 

 Mr. John Hunter, from whom he imbibed habits of assiduity, zeal 

 and industry, which characterized him through a long and arduous 

 professional career. The department of surgery having been chosen 

 as his profession, he became early associated with Mr. Hunter as 

 his dresser at St. George s Hospital, and through his recommen- 

 dation was afterwards appointed assistant-surgeon to accompany 

 Lord Macartney on his important embassy to China in 1792. The 

 voyage was replete with interest, and proved most creditable to the 

 medical staff, whose services were highly estimated, not only by 

 members of the embassy and the ship's company, but also by the 

 troops quartered at Chusan, to whom at a critical juncture most ac- 

 tive assistance had been rendered. 



On the return of the embassy to this country an expedition was 

 fitting out against Flolland, and Mr. Thomas's tender of services to 

 accompany the army was accepted. During the arduous duties 



